On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 09:18 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I have a table of log messages. They are mostly in the 100-200 > character length, which apparently isn't large enough for PG to want > to compress it (length == octet_length). I really need to save disk > space. I can store it as a bytea and compress it manually (zlib level > 1 compression gives about 50% savings), but is there a way to force > pg's own compression before I resort to this? > Are you sure PostgreSQL isn't compressing it? I didn't think there was a minimum threshold for compression. Regards, Jeff Davis
